Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yoon Jin Lee

Malia Morioka Douglas

Rachel Sirkin

Stephen White

Aaron E Erlandson

Evan W Lavender

Erin Greenly

Peter Loren Engrav

Shikha Devesh Desai

Julio Estrada

Caitlin E Ashley-Rollman

Trevor J Harris

Irina Smolyanskaya

Jie Dong

Christian Harper-Cyr

Ilya Greysukh

Eugene Ahn

A method of and system for providing a user interface (UI) element is carried out by receiving an input for invoking the UI element in a UI screen, the input being received via a writing instrument, determining a direction of tilt of the writing instrument at a point of input, and upon determining the direction of tilt of the writing instrument, displaying the UI element in a location on the UI screen that is a direction opposite to the determined direction of tilt of the writing instrument. The UI element may provide access to each of the UI controls via a plurality of unstructured paths.

System and method of providing digital ink optimized user interface elements

A computer-implemented method for implementing a map calendar graphical user interface (GUI) including content-variable view levels is described herein. The method includes executing a map calendar application to provide a map calendar GUI surfaced on a display. The map calendar GUI includes interactive visualizations of a map calendar that are organized into content-variable view levels that relate to specific units of time. The method also includes displaying, via the surfaced map calendar GUI, interactive visualizations of different content-variable view levels such that non-level-specific calendar content items are displayed with respect to all content-variable view levels that encompass the time fragments corresponding to the non-level-specific calendar content items, while level-specific calendar content items are only displayed with respect to one or more content-variable view levels to which the level-specific calendar content items have been specifically linked, as determined by one or more user inputs.

Map calendar graphical user interface with content-variable view levels

A computer-implemented method for implementing a map calendar application and corresponding map calendar GUI that provide time mold functionality is described herein. The method includes executing the map calendar application to provide the map calendar GUI surfaced on a display. The map calendar GUI includes an interactive visualization of a map calendar, which includes a continuous, manipulable sequence of calendar content data corresponding to calendar content items that are organized based on units of time within a coordinate plane. The method also includes categorizing the calendar content items based on time categories corresponding to the calendar content items and identifying time patterns corresponding to the categorized calendar content items. The method further includes generating a time mold of the map calendar based on the identified time patterns and visually overlaying the time mold onto corresponding calendar content items within the interactive visualization.

Map calendar graphical user interface with dynamic time mold functionality

A system for a map calendar is described herein. The map calendar includes a calendar content database that is to store at least one item of calendar content and a navigation system that determines a zoom level and a panning position of the map calendar. The map calendar also includes a processor that is to determine a summarization level based on the zoom level and the panning position of the map calendar and render the calendar content according to the summarization level.

Digital map calendar user interface

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